Asus unveils ROG Maximus VIII Impact motherboard

While Asus has unveiled plenty of Intel Z170 Express chipset based motherboards, one particular motherboard was missing from the Republic of Gamers list, the mini-ITX ROG Maximus VIII Impact motherboard which is now officially announced.

Just as it was the case with the previously available ROG Maximus VII Impact motherboard based on Intel's high-end Z97 Express chipset, the new Maximus VIII Impact also features a high-end VRM part placed on a daughter-board at the edge of the motherboard. This also allowed Asus to pack plenty of high-end features on a 17x17cm mini-ITX form-factor.

Based on Intel's latest high-end Z170 Express chipset, the new Asus ROG Maximus VIII Impact features support for Intel's latest 6th generation Core Skylake CPUs, support for up to 32GB of DDR4 4133MHz memory in two DIMM slots, a single PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot, four SATA 6Gbps ports and a single U.2 PCIe 3.0 storage port.